Below is some "copy and paste" from Toni's raised bed print-out. If the moats are dry, why would a disabled person delete the moats in their garden design to make it more accesible to a wheelchair or scooter?
.....bobford
- Good drainage: In the wet Kentucky Springtime, these beds have drainage with surrounding moats keep our new root systems from being waterlogged.
- Keeps good soil in place: The heavy covering of paper and organic mulches keep all the soil in place - even thru the now counted on deluges of rain! At the end of the season, any topsoil that has filled into the moats get quickly shoveled atop the beds before covering for the season.
- Mostly weed-free planting areas: Very few weeds come up on these beds. Those that do, are weak and can be pulled out with two fingers, if needed.
- Economy in irrigation: During times of drought, raised beds can dry out much too fast. This thick bed covering keeps plantings far moister than raised beds unmulched. Very little watering is needed thruout the season.
- Ease of maintenance: As we grow older and our bodies weary in bending Each year the soil becomes more the object of my thanks with this method. If one is a disabled gardener, the moats could be deleted in the garden design, allowing a scoot-along seat or wheelchair to be used with plant heights being quite accessible ( not considering such as Pole Beans or Heirloom Maters!)
--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Warren <mogrits AT gmail.com> wrote:
From: Warren <mogrits AT gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Moats?
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 12:02 PM
I think as used on this list, a moat is just a spatial
barrier. If I recall
correctly, Gene's "chicken moat" is just
double fencing your garden allowing
chickens to patrol the perimeter. The "chicken
moat" keeps the bugs out.
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